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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 6
Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst
of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set
up the standard over Bethacarem: for evil is seen out
of the north, and a great destruction.
I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and
delicate woman.
The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they
have pitched their tents against her round about: every
one shall feed them that are under his hand.
Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up
at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for
the shadows of the evening are grown longer.
Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her
houses.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees,
cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to
be visited, all oppression is in the midst of her.
As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made
her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard
in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before
me.
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart
from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall gather the
remains of Israel, as in a vine, even to one cluster:
turn back thy hand, as a grape gatherer into the basket.
To whom shall I speak? and to whom shall I testify,
that he may hear? behold, their ears are uncircumcised,
and they cannot hear: behold the word of the Lord is
become unto them a reproach: and and they will not receive
it.
Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary
with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad,
and upon the council of the young men together: for
man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that
is full of days.
And their houses shall be turned over to others, with
their lands and their wives together: for I will stretch
for my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith
the Lord.
For from the least of them even to the greatest, all
are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even
to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.
And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people
disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no
peace.
They were confounded, because they commmitted abomination:
yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion,
and they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall
fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation
they shall fall down, saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see and
ask for the old paths which is the good way, and walk
ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls.
And they said: we will not walk.
And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye
to the sound of the trumpet. And they said: We will
not hearken.
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation,
what great things I will do to them.
Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people,
the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have
not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.
To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba,
and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your
holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices
pleasing to me.
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring
destruction upon this people, by which fathers and sons
together shall fall, neighbor and kinsman shall perish.
Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the
land of the north, and a great nation shall rise up
from the ends of the earth.
They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel,
and will have no mercy. Their voice shall roar like
the sea: and they shall mount upon horses, prepared
as men for war, against thee, O daughter of Sion.
We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble:
anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labor.
Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway:
for the sword of the enemy, and fear is on every side.
Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and
sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for
an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer
shall suddenly come upon us.
I have set thee for a strong trier among my people:
and thou shalt know and prove their way.
All of these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully,
they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.
The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the
fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked
deeds are not consumed.
Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected
them. |
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